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EDWARDLJ. BROOKS, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR 'TO E. J.

BROOKS 8U OO., OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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' SPECIFICATION forming part vof Letters Patent No. 326,199, dated September 15, 1885.

Application filed July 15, 1885. (No model.)

To 1r/ZZY whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. BRooKs, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Orange in the State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Seals, (133,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention is additional to those of my improvements in press-fastened seals for securing the doors of railway freight-cars and for analogous uses, set forth in the following United States patents, viz: No. 161,47 5, dated March 30, 1875, No. 179,260, dated June 27, 1876, and No. 320,904, dated June 23, 1885, particularly the latter. Said Patent No. 320, 904 sets forth and claims a variety of such seals having as their distinguishing characteristic compressible securers of soft metal cast fast onthe threading ends of flexible shackles, to coact with seal-diskswhich may be either of glass and like hard and brittle substances or of lead or sheet metal, and

compressed togetherwith the securers.

The present invention consists in another variety of such seals, hereinafter set forth and claimed, having securers cast fast on the Ithreading ends of flexible shackles, but of type-metal. Babbitt metal, or the like, so as t0 be non-compressible, and thus adapted to coact with soft-metal seal-disks exclusively in a different way, so as to be securely fastened by the seal-presses more commonly used for fastening lead seals, and requiring no protectors to prevent liberating the shackle ends.

Two sheets of drawings accompany this specification as part thereof. Figure 1 of these drawings is an elevation of a shackle and securers, illustrating this invention, one

of the securers being shown in section. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a seal embodying the same, ready for the press. Fig. v3 is a face view of this seal pressed, showing the sealdisk and securers in section. Fig. 3x represents a section on the line as w, Fig. 8. Fig. 4 and 5 are face views of seals ready for the press, formed by the same shackle and securers, in combination with modified sealdisks. Fig. 6 is a sectional face viewof a seal ready for the press, having its seal-disk cast fast on one end ofthe shackle. Fig. 7 is a partly-sectionized elevation of another shackle and securers, illustrating additional modifications of these.` Fig. 8 is an elevation of a shackle and securers for cross-wire seals. Fig. 9 is a face view of the same as combined with a preferred construction of seal-disks, illustrat ing the threading operation. Fig. 10 is a face view of this seal ready for the press. Fig. 11 is a face view thereof pressed; Figsfi.l 9", 10", and 11Z, represent, respectively, sections on the lines w x, y y, and z z, Figs. 9, 10, and 11; and Fig. 12 is an edge view of the seal-disk represented in Figs. 9 and 10.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the respective series of figures vIn each of these improved seals there is a flexible metallic shackle, S, preferably of single iron wire, provided at one or each end with a non-compressible securer, s, preferably of type-metal, cast fast thereon, and asoftmetal seal-disk, D, preferably of lead, having a threading-hole, h, corresponding With such securer, or with each of them, if there be two, and adapted to admit the same, so that the seal-disks may be solidified above effective withdrawal-resisting shoulders on-the securers, while one or both ends of each securer may be, and preferably are, exposed outside of the seal-disks, so as to manifest the character of the fastening to inspectors. (See Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 9X, 10Y, 11, 111.)

A B, Figs. 2 to 6 and 9 to 11, inclusive, reppressing the seal-disks D, so as to solidify them around the securers s, and to stamp them with distinguishing marks, lettering, numbers, or the like, as represented, respectively, by Figs. 3, 8*, and 11, which show fastened or pressed seals, as aforesaid. This pressing may be and is designed to be accomplished by ordinary seal-presses applied to the seal-disks in customary manner after the securers are properly inserted, as shown in Figs. 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, and l0?.

In the first of said seals, Figs. 1 to3", inclusive, both ends of the shackle-wire are provided with my detector7 anchoring-indentations a, originally set forth in said Patent No. 179,260. Upon the indented) ends are cast fast type-metal securers s s, corresponding, substantially, in length with the diameter or ICO depth of the seal-disk to be used therewith, so that when their lower ends project outside of an ordinaryseal-disk of a suitable size, having through-holes, as represented in Figs. 2, 3, and 3", the upper ends of the securers will be correspondingly sunk below the upper edge of the seal-disk, and the lead will consequently besolidied above them, so as to most eifectively resist withdrawal, as represented in Figs. 3, 3x. The securers s are pref# erably provided additionally with circumferential grooves or creases c, or like peripheral provision against stripping, and, being so constructed, may project at both ends, as shown in Fig. 4, or at the upper edge of the seal-disk instead of its lower edge, as shown in Fig. 5, the seal-disk being preferably cast'in this case with al solid lower edge, as represented, so as to stop the securers within it in proper position.

In the one-part seal, Fig. 6, the shacklewire'is the same as in the seals already described, the'seal-disk being cast fast on one of its indented ends, while the other end is propattern of securers is variable.

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vided with a securer of the same pattern as those shown in the preceding figures. Said This is illustrated by Fig. 7, which also illustrates the substitution of simple bends b at the extremities of the shackle-wire for said detector-in- Owing to the permanency `of the securers,V such bends or any preferred anchoring provision on the wirel suffices, and if the extremity ofthe wire be thus located above Vthe seal-disk it cannot be tampered with, ow-

ing to the hardness of the type-metal or the like, which preventsopening the securers by cutting and bending to release the shackle ends.

vIn the concluding modification illustrated by Figs. 8 to 12, inclusive, I provide for the employment of a seal-disk, D, of my crosswire type, originally set forth in said Patent No. 161,475.

To avoid making the seal-disk of extraordinary thickness to admit the securers, and

topreclude breaking the latter across each other .in the pressing operation, the sealdisk is constructed with its crossed threading- 4holes'h h notched into each other at midlength, so that each may occupy considerably more than half the thickness of the disk, as

clearly-represented in Figs. 9, 10y, and 12, and the securers are constructed with long contracted waists w. In4 adjusting the seal for pressing, one securer is inserted, as reprel sented in.Figs. 9, 9x, and then the other as represented by the arrow in Fig. 9 and by hole through which the second is to be in-v serted, so as to admit the latter freely, as

"shown in Fig. 9, and the large ends of each In l y ner set forth. Figs. 10,10?, the waist of the first clearing the securer locking the other within the'seal-disk preliminarily after both are inserted,as shown in Fig. 10, v i

The diameter of the seal-disk should be such that it will lie within the large ends of the securers, as represented in Fig. 10, so that in the pressing operation the crossed 'waists of the securers may come to the midinseparably cast fast thereon.

`The shape of the securers is considered immaterial, so long as the generalcharacteristics hereinbefore set forth are preserved.

Having thus described my said improve-I I ment in seals, I claim as my invention, and desire to patent under this specication- 1. A eXible metallic shackleprovided at each or either of its ends with a non-compressible securer cast fast .thereon and constructed with permanent withdrawal-resisting shoulders, i n combination with a compressible seal-disk of soft metal, havinga threadinghole or threading-holes to admit said securers, 1

substantially as herein specilied.

2. rl`he combination, substantially as herein specified, of a flexible metallic shackle 'having each -or either of its ends provided -with a non-compressible securer cast fast thereon,

and a compressible seal-disk of soft metal, corresponding substantially in diameteror depth with the length of said securers, and having a threading-holeor threading-holes ICO extending through from edge to edge to admit u the securers, whereby the upper ends of the securers are effectively sunk below the upper edge .of the seal-disk when their lower `ends are projected below its lower edge,as set forth.

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3. rIhe combination, substantially as herein specied, of a flexible metallic shackle of single wire, having its respective ends vindented and provided with non-compressible securers cast fast thereon, and a compressible seal-disk of soft metal,having a pair of threading-holes to admit, said securers, for uniting the latter,

and therewith the shackel ends, in the man- EDWARDV J. Bitooksf Vitnesses:

HENRY L. C. WENK, L. )FARLEY HooEY. 

